Quotes from When We Collide

A.L. Jackson ·  216 pages

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“I don’t know how to stop loving you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“I'll be whatever you need me to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“I loved her. Oh God… I loved her. She was everything, ripped me apart and made me whole.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide



“Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I’d give this girl anything she asked me for. I’d probably beg her to take it.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“She's get lost in my words while I'd get lost in those eyes.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“I'd struggled to supply the needs I didn't have the strength to provide, to give him hope when I had none, to give him joy when I had little to share. All I'd have to give him was my love.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“I'd always been willing. But I always fell short, every good intention I ever had never good enough.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide



“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in his bed. A burdened breath escaped his lungs, and he rolled to his side.

So precious and already so damaged.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


“My smile was soft as I looked down at the same broken girl who'd captured me, both of us so different yet somehow exactly the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide


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A.L. Jackson
Born place: in The United States
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